Jesus’s Family Tree

We’re moving into women in the New Testament! And to do that we’re going to dig back into the Old Testament. The Gospel of Matthew starts with the genealogy of Jesus which has some peculiarities that would have been surprising to its readers, namely that 5 women are included in what would normally be a list of men only. This was a deliberate choice by the author to teach us something about who shaped Jesus and who He came to save. They also show us that Jesus chose to join a family with generations of turmoil, trauma, beauty and tragedy. So today we’re going to look at their stories and discuss what they show us about the character of Christ and how Jesus joins our stories. Follow along in your Bible: Matt. 1:3-6, 16 Tamar: Gen. 38:6-26 Rahab: Josh. 2:8-14, 21 (Check our episode “Squad Goals” for Ruth’s story) Bathsheba: 2 Sam. 11:2-5 Mary gets a whole episode to herself to come back for next week’s episode to dig into Mary’s story!